Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Why Are Giant Sinkholes Appearing All Over America? Is Something Happening To The Earth’s Crust?

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Where are
all of these giant sinkholes coming from? Of course there have always been
sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the
number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically. So exactly why are
so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America all of a sudden? Is
something happening to the Earth’s crust, or is there some other explanation?
The “experts” are blaming this epidemic of sinkholes on things like loose soil,
acidic groundwater, new construction, leaky water pipes, coal mines, fracking,
long periods of drought followed by rain, and depletion of underground
aquifers, but do they really understand what is going on?

On
Thursday, a 37-year-old man named Jeffrey Bush living near Tampa, Florida
died when the earth underneath his home suddenly opened up and swallowed him
alive. His brother tried to help him when he heard Jeffrey screaming, but it
was too late. The entire bedroom was sucked deep into the earth and the home
had to be rapidly abandoned. Now authorities are admitting that he will
probably never be found. So is this type of thing really “normal”? It would be
one thing if this was just an isolated incident, but the truth is that giant
sinkholes have been appearing with increasing frequency all over the planet
lately. Could this be an indication that major earth changes are on the way?

Florida has always been an area that has been prone to sinkholes,
but the numbers do show that sinkhole damage in the state has increased very
rapidly in recent years.

According
to ABC News, insurance claims related to sinkholes more than doubled between
2006 and 2009…

Hillsborough County, where Seffner is
situated, is part of an area in Florida
prone to sinkholes, with insurance claims associated with them more than
doubling between 2006 and 2009, according to a Florida Senate report.

But that
is just Florida,
right?

Other
parts of the country are not having this kind of a problem, right?

Wrong.

Just
check out what has been happening in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania lately. There are
dozens of sinkholes that have opened up in Harrisburg, and the city is so broke that it
doesn’t have the money to fix all of them.

In fact,
at this point there are41 sinkholes that have been documented in Harrisburg, and many of
them are right in the middle of the street…

Pennsylvania’s state capital is suffering from a rash of monster
sinkholes, but city officials are too broke to do anything about it.

Loose
soil and leaky, century-old underground water pipes are to blame for the
municipal nightmare, which came to a head on the New Year’s Eve when a 50-foot
sinkhole yawned open along Fourth Street,the Wall Street Journal reported.

The
eight-foot deep crater — one of at least 41 in the city — is so large, locals
made it a “check-in” site on the social media site Four Square.

Some
cheeky residents and the media nicknamed the hole “Super Sinkhole Walter.”

Of course
there have been lots of cities throughout U.S. history that have experienced
such an epidemic of sinkholes, right?

There is
no reason to be alarmed, right?

In a
previous article about sinkholes, I talked about a sinkhole that recently
formed in Ohio
that was the size of four football fields and that was more than 30 feet deep.
It caused part of State Route 516 to collapse and authorities were projecting
that the road would continue to stay closed for months to come.

But that
is “normal”, right?

The giant
Louisiana
sinkhole in Assumption Parish that made headlines all over the nation last year
is now more than 800 feet in diameter. It just continues to grow, and
authorities have no idea when it will stop growing.

But this
kind of thing happens all the time, right?

Just
recently, large sinkholes forced roads to close in New Jersey and in Arizona.
Of course those incidents will soon be forgotten because there are more news
stories about major sinkholes in the United States almost every single
day now. Giant sinkholes have been happening with such regularity that people
hardly take notice anymore.

You can
see some photos of some of the craziest sinkholes in recent years right here.
It would be one thing if giant sinkholes were just appearing in the United States,
but unfortunately that is not the case.

For
instance, a sinkhole that appeared in the middle of Guatemala City in 2010 was about 30 stories
deep.

Down in Sarisarinama, Venezuela some sinkholes have
appeared in recent years that are more than 1,000 feet wide.

China has been one of the worst areas of the world for sinkholes
over the past several years. In fact, just check out what has been happeningin one village in China recently

Residents
in the village of Lianyuan in southern China’s
Hunan Province have been treading rather
gingerly these last few months. Over 20 sinkholes have opened up in the ground
since last September. The cave-ins, which range in size, have seen houses
collapse and rivers run dry. And there is never any warning as to where and
when the sinkholes occur. According to local authorities, the main reason for
the cave-ins is the number of coalmines in the area. It is not clear what steps
are being taken to prevent further sinkholes from appearing.

I could
go on and on with more examples from all over the globe, but hopefully you are
starting to get the point.

Giant
holes are opening up all over the earth and swallowing homes, buildings, roads
and sometimes even people.

So why is
this happening?

Is the
crust of the earth becoming more unstable?

Or is
something else at work?

Please
feel free to post a comment with your opinion below…

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